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Govt. wants to know if LTTE has withdrawn from CFA
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 - 4:08 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka`s government said on Tuesday it has asked peace broker Norway and European cease-fire monitors to find out if Tamil Tiger rebels have officially withdrawn from a four-year-old cease-fire, after their top leader called the pact `defunct.`
`We have asked Norway and the SLMM (Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission) to inquire whether the LTTE is out of the cease-fire agreement,` government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said, referring to the rebels by an acronym for their formal name, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Rambukwella said that the government`s future course of action will depend upon the rebels` response.
Top guerrilla leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in his annual `Martyrs` Day` speech on Monday called a 2002 Norway-brokered cease-fire with the government `defunct` and said a separate independent country for Sri Lanka`s Tamil minority was the only option. However, Prabhakaran stopped short of declaring an official withdrawal from the cease-fire agreement, which requires any side wanting to walk away to give a 14-day notice.
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